Katsina: APC defeats PDP, wins supplementary election

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Saturday declared Mansur Ali Mashi of the All Progressive Congress, APC, the winner of the supplementary election into the Mashi/Dutsi Federal constituency.
The returning officer, Hudu Ayuba said Mansur Mashi scored 30,719 votes against 22,690 votes scored by Nazifi Yusuf of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
According to him, the supplementary election held in the six affected polling units in Dutsi local government, the APC scored 934 votes while PDP got 217 votes out of the 1,177 votes cast.
Similarly, in the nine polling units in Mashi local government area the APC scored 1,633 against PDP’s 676 votes out of the 2,231 total votes cast.
The returning officer said these scores were added to the previous votes recorded by the political parties during the bye-election conducted in May 2017 to arrive at the final result.
Ayuba announced that a total of 3,382 votes were cast during the Saturday election out of the 9,089 registered voters in the affected polling units adding that the number of valid votes was 3,370 while 286 votes cast were rejected.
It could be recalled that the election into the Mashi/Dutsi Federal Constituency which was earlier won by Mansur Mashi was nullified by the Election Petition Tribunal due to substantial non compliance with election rules and regulations.
The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the tribunal and ordered supplementary election in the 15 polling units. (NAN)